Americans spending millions as they prepare to face Apocalypse

#apocalypse #preppers #doomsday Given the prevailing condition of the world today, there is no telling when life can be wiped out by natural disasters like cyclone, typhoon, mudslides, bush fire or by manmade ones like nuclear warfare or terrorist attacks. However, with a price tag of a nuclear-hardened, luxury underground living for $3.1m per floor, it could be just what one would want.
No one wants to die and Americans have already begun to plan for such an eventuality and are keeping ready suitable places where they can hide – at least for a certain length of time. One option could be a survival bunker, deep underground in a converted nuclear missile silo in the middle of America.
People have already descended upon this lucrative new emerging market and doomsday entrepreneur Larry Hall has spent years building the ultimate in survival hideaways. He sells to up-market 'preppers' – this is a relatively new set of Americans who are preparing for imminent catastrophe. They are those who believe that the world could soon end through natural disasters, terrorist attacks or economic collapse, and they do not have faith that their government will protect them when society falls apart.
Anyway, what Larry has built is worth a look – he has installed his 'survival condos' in converted nuclear missile silos that are constructed in the cold war in the Kansas countryside. They are 200 feet deep with walls of reinforced concrete that are nine feet thick.
Each apartment has eight floors of luxury apartments, each storey offers 1,800 square feet of luxury living space for up to 10 people, complete with jacuzzi baths and designer kitchens. An estimated 70 people could live for more than five years in the complex that is supplied with its own electricity, water and stored food.
It seems one silo is sold out and Larry has begun work on another – he caters to those who have thought about the future and are not happy with what could be in store for them. The price tag for this nuclear-hardened, luxury underground living could be all yours for $3.1m per floor.

when terror strikes (synopsis)

Synopsis

Killing to Munni-chachi was a method to clear obstacles. Very few knew of her real power, her hidden agenda. To the commoner, she could manage the impossible. People loved and respected her for her generosity, for her helping nature, for her willingness to go the extra mile.

The Mumbai bomb blasts of 26/11, to her, were Godsend. It would camouflage her intentions.

The only surviving terrorist Joseph Akmal Khan was behind bars – it threw up immense possibilities. Munni-chachi could now activate her terror modules.

If there were remnants of burnt Urdu newspapers, Pakistani coins and firearms with foreign markings in the debris of any destruction those would imply the presence of foreign hands and the situation could be exploited to the fullest.

She was spurred for quick action due to an e-mail received by a TV news channel hinting at attacks on defense and strategic installations in and around Mumbai. All hell broke loose.

The Home Minister called for an emergency meeting with RAW (the Research and Analysis Wing), the Anti Terrorist Squad and the Police Commissioner with the Chiefs of the Armed Forces to evolve strategies to counter the threats.

With kidnappings, missing slum children and a doctor-builder nexus in a kidney racket, this novel keeps you on the edge.

This is a story of modern day terrorism, terrorists and terror modules.

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Citizen Journalist reporting on natural disasters or calamities or accidents

These are unpredictable affairs – no one can forecast where there would be an earthquake or where a fire would engulf a shopping complex at the dead of night or when the flood waters would breach the dam and enter the villages. Neither can one anticipate any major accident or disaster like a running express train ramming into a stationary one or of terrorist attacks.

An alert Citizen Journalist should be prepared to move to the site at the first opportunity to obtain first hand information that he can supply to the real-time mainstream media.

While reporting he has to bear in mind the following general guidelines –

Whether help was delayed
Whether the rescue teams had come with proper equipment
Whether the medical treatments were prompt
Whether NGOs responded and how the locals extended assistance

The CJ should discuss with the persons who are affected as well as the administration on how the relief amounts would be calculated and distributed
The CJ should support all statements with photographs (videos preferable) as well as facts and figures.